Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 33
To all appearance, the rock was as firmly fastened as any other portion of the earth's substance.
What happens: fasten · To what, where: rock
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 appearance | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 appearance | det |
| 3 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 appearance | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fastened | aux:pass |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 fastened | mark |
| 9 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 10 fastened | advmod |
| 10 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 portion | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 portion | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 portion | amod |
| 14 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 substance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 substance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 19 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 portion | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | the rock | to all appearance; as any other portion of the earth's substance; firmly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to appearance=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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